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Base layout
Hints from MacMark and Martin.
When you build up your base don't put your buildings anywhere.
- Put the weak buildings like the items shop for your heroes in the back of your base.
- Center towers between buildings they should protect inside your base. Don't make a line of towers in front of your base: The enemy wold pass by and attack your backyard.
- Place food buildings (burrows, farms, etc.) so that they're no easy target when being rushed.
- You can't protect your towers with burrows, it's the burrows you have to protect. Build burrows behind buildings, like barracks and voodoo lounge. The worst thing you can do is to build your burrows as a protector of your towers. The first thing a good player would do is to destroy the burrows. (Thanks to Martin for this hint.)
- Build some towers. Yes, I know some people say siege units will kill them. That's right. But every unit can be countered. Siege units are killed by melee or air units. And towers kill the early rushers – saving your ass. Plus you buy time to return to your base. Why? The enemy must fight the towers, else they kill him. He can only attack your buildings after having killed the towers.
- Narrow the entries to your base with burrows and farms and towers or the likes. Give the enemy a long way to travel with only one unit at a time to reach your main building.
- Put some siege units behing your towers, because siege kills many of the typical rushing units.
- Put defensive structures (towers, burrows, …) in the middle and back of your base too. Expect the enemy to drop troops (goblin zeppelin) in the backyard or to go air.
- Your defensive buildings should be build so that every building (tower) can get curtain fire from two others.
- Put a cheap scout-building a little in front of your base. The approaching enemy will destroy this first and you're warned that he's coming even if he passes by.
- Some opponents don't scout well. You can build unprotected expansion bases like hell then. Do it to get money fast. If he kill thes expansion, you will have emptied the biggest part of the gold mine.
Disclaimer: Caution! Kids, don't try this at home!